AccessLens: Auto-detecting Inaccessibility of Everyday Objects

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Main Authors: Kwon, Nahyun, Lu, Qian, Qazi, Muhammad Hasham, Liu, Joanne, Oh, Changhoon, Kong, Shu, Kim, Jeeeun
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Published: 2024
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author Kwon, Nahyun
Lu, Qian
Qazi, Muhammad Hasham
Liu, Joanne
Oh, Changhoon
Kong, Shu
Kim, Jeeeun
author_facet Kwon, Nahyun
Lu, Qian
Qazi, Muhammad Hasham
Liu, Joanne
Oh, Changhoon
Kong, Shu
Kim, Jeeeun
contents In our increasingly diverse society, everyday physical interfaces often present barriers, impacting individuals across various contexts. This oversight, from small cabinet knobs to identical wall switches that can pose different contextual challenges, highlights an imperative need for solutions. Leveraging low-cost 3D-printed augmentations such as knob magnifiers and tactile labels seems promising, yet the process of discovering unrecognized barriers remains challenging because disability is context-dependent. We introduce AccessLens, an end-to-end system designed to identify inaccessible interfaces in daily objects, and recommend 3D-printable augmentations for accessibility enhancement. Our approach involves training a detector using the novel AccessDB dataset designed to automatically recognize 21 distinct Inaccessibility Classes (e.g., bar-small and round-rotate) within 6 common object categories (e.g., handle and knob). AccessMeta serves as a robust way to build a comprehensive dictionary linking these accessibility classes to open-source 3D augmentation designs. Experiments demonstrate our detector's performance in detecting inaccessible objects.
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spellingShingle AccessLens: Auto-detecting Inaccessibility of Everyday Objects
Kwon, Nahyun
Lu, Qian
Qazi, Muhammad Hasham
Liu, Joanne
Oh, Changhoon
Kong, Shu
Kim, Jeeeun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
In our increasingly diverse society, everyday physical interfaces often present barriers, impacting individuals across various contexts. This oversight, from small cabinet knobs to identical wall switches that can pose different contextual challenges, highlights an imperative need for solutions. Leveraging low-cost 3D-printed augmentations such as knob magnifiers and tactile labels seems promising, yet the process of discovering unrecognized barriers remains challenging because disability is context-dependent. We introduce AccessLens, an end-to-end system designed to identify inaccessible interfaces in daily objects, and recommend 3D-printable augmentations for accessibility enhancement. Our approach involves training a detector using the novel AccessDB dataset designed to automatically recognize 21 distinct Inaccessibility Classes (e.g., bar-small and round-rotate) within 6 common object categories (e.g., handle and knob). AccessMeta serves as a robust way to build a comprehensive dictionary linking these accessibility classes to open-source 3D augmentation designs. Experiments demonstrate our detector's performance in detecting inaccessible objects.
title AccessLens: Auto-detecting Inaccessibility of Everyday Objects
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15996